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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo C vs Quick C
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Date: 18 Feb 88 01:26:13 GMT
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In article <1750@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, asjoshi@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Amit S. Joshi) writes:
}I remember that while looking at the compiler options for "tcc" there
}was one which claimed to produce "standard stack frames". I don't have
}any debugger (and I get along quite fine without it - when I come to
}very convoluted code I use 'dbx' on the VAX !). I was lloking at the
}Turbo C manual and the option is ' -Y' and it says there that "it
}generates a standard stack frame which is useful when using a debugger
}to trace back ..." [...]
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The option is '-k', and what it does is cause the compiler always to emit code 
to set up a stack frame, even when one is not needed (because there are no 
parameters and no local vars).  It does not, as another poster suggested, 
change the order in which things are placed on the stack.

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